ToodleDo "Slowing Down"?

Nothing earthshaking, but I used to hit F5 and get an INSTANTANEOUS refresh of my To Do List. Now I get a couple of seconds of "loading" before that happens, on any computer, iPod and/or connection I use (wired or wireless, home or remote). Sorry, I'm spoiled, what's up?

What happened before is that it would load up the entire page before displaying anything, and then Boom, it would all appear. You describe this as "Instantaneous", but it was actually a 3+ second pause and then it was done. The pause was longer depending on how many tasks you had.

What we have done with our latest optimizations is to shift this 3 second pause later in the process, so you see an empty page load instantly, and then the 3 second pause happens while the tasks are loaded into the inside of that page. The advantage of this is that you can perform actions on the page quicker now. So you could actually begin adding a task, sorting, or whatever before the tasks have finished loading.

So, while viewing tasks actually takes the same amount of time, you may perceive it as begin slightly slower, but it is actually faster to do certain things other than reading tasks.

Yes, we use that tool, and others. You really can't get all A's unless you have a very simple website. Toodledo is complex and if you have lots of tasks, there is lots of information. It is also wrong on several things. For example, we do use a CDN, the tools just can't figure this out.

I understand the reply to the original question, but it does not work like that for me. On first invoking Toodledo in Firefox I get a mostly blank page and then after a couple or three seconds my list appears. But clicking New Task - either before the full page has loaded or soon after - entails a wait of about 12 - 15 seconds before it opens the New Task box. This only happens the first time in a session however - if I close Toodledo and then open it up again during the same FF session, it all works within 2 seconds. Any idea why?